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SPIN
Spin the token and the student says the target word as many times as the token spins. Simple, self-timing, and students will compete to get the longest spin.
PLAY BINGO
Download our custom Printable Lingua Tokens® BINGO Card Sets to have students either get 3 in a row or fill the card with the tokens as they say the words.
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Tic-Tac Tokens
Draw or print a Tic tac Token board. Try to get 3 in a row with lots of trials prior to placing your tokens.
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Four-in-a-row
Take turns placing tokens on the board. First to get four in a row wins. Or try "don’t connect 3". Take turns placing your tokens but don't be the first to have 3 in a row.
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Sensory Bins
Bury tokens in a bin of kinetic sand, rice, or dried beans and have students excavate them one by one. Every time they dig one up, they practice their target word before tossing it in the "treasure pile." Pair it with a BINGO card to have them locate specific tokens.
Slide Them
Using a dry-erase marker, draw lines across the table to create zones and assign something different to each one: a number of trials, a level of complexity, or different prosody. Students slide their tokens, trying to get as far as they can without sliding off the table. Or set up a goal with two objects or fingers and have them slide the tokens into the goal.
Toss Them
Have students toss tokens into a bowl, basket, or bean bag toss game. Say the target word before each toss. A muffin tin is especially fun because you can assign different values for each cup.
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Just Add Water
Toss tokens in a water table and fish them out. Spray them with a spray bottle (great when working on clusters spr-spray or skw-squirt). Put them in reusable water balloons. Have them open them or splat them to figure out what token was inside.
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Pair with Putty
Pair them with Play Doh, slime, or my favorite Aaron's Thinking Putty. Use them as pizza toppings, decorations, or inside mini hamburgers.
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Stick Them
Have the student practice the targets as you lay them out on the table, then use sticky hands or suction cups (like Squigz) to pick them up while naming the ones they have collected.
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Ramp Race
Prop up a simple ramp (a binder works great, or build one with magnetic tiles) and race tokens down it. Say your target word before you release. Fun to roll them down on their own or have a race. Instead of 3-2-1-Go, have them say the name of the token before they release it.
Air Hockey
Get a desired number of accurate trials, then use the token as a puck for a quick game.
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Heads or Tails
Flip a token. The student calls their target word. If it lands target word side up, they win the flip. Working with two students on different sounds? Tape their tokens back-to-back. Each side belongs to one student, and whoever's side lands up takes their turn.
Feed ME
A puppet or robot is hungry and the only thing it eats is whatever your target word is. The student has to offer food to the puppet ("Do you want string?"), the puppet responds ("Yes! Feed me!"), and the token gets fed into the puppet's mouth.
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Piggy Bank or Coin Slot
Something deeply satisfying about feeding a token into a coin slot. Have students say their target word each time they drop one in. Or have two different containers to keep track of correct vs. redo targets.
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Token Track
Replace the marbles for tokens in this track and try to get the tokens to roll down into the tray.
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Take out the Trash
Have a trash truck lover? Fill the trash cans with a certain number of tokens, and once they're full with trials, have the trash truck come take them out.
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Go Shopping
Use tokens as currency for a pretend store. Students have to earn or spend a certain number of tokens to "buy" items, practicing their target word with each transaction.
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Slide Them Down Slides
Have students say their target word at the top of the slide, drop the token down, then race it to the bottom to retrieve it. Roll them and try to land them in a bucket at the base.
Sand Box Search
Take the tokens outside to the sandbox. Have your kid identify the targets first, then bury them and excavate. Bring the BINGO cards along to stack your trials. They're hunting for specific tokens, naming what they find, and building toward a Bingo or blackout all at the same time.
Fish Them Out
Attach paper clips to the tokens and fish them out with a magnetic fishing pole. Name the “fish” before sending them in to increase your trials. Pair it with a BINGO card for an added challenge to find the specific match. Use in water or on dry land.
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Launch Them
Make your own catapult or use one from an existing game to launch the tokens into a target. My students love the Shoot the Poop game.
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Shuffle Cups
Get 3 cups, place one token under a cup. Shuffle the cups around and have the student track where their target word landed. Add tokens under the other cups for more trials and concentration.
Launch Them
Build a ramp and let them launch them off into a container. I like to use a muffin tin and try to fill it, or build boxes with magnetic tiles.